Maureen Kahiu organizes fungus isolates collected from various turfgrass species following the repeated application of DMI ...

Fungal communities hidden underground support 80 percent of land plants around the world and store 13 billion tons of carbon ...

A new global atlas of underground fungi suggests that some surprising biodiversity hot spots lie hidden beneath our feet.

Using more than 2.8 billion fungal sequences sampled from 130 countries, scientists map the biodiversity of Earth's ...

Microbial contaminants like airborne bacteria and fungi can make up more than a third of indoor air pollution. Yet, while many countries regulate chemical pollutants, most have no legally binding ...

More than 96% of deforestation, or human-caused, permanent removal of forest cover, occurs in the tropics.

The golden oyster mushroom, a tasty species native to Asia, has proliferated in states around the Great Lakes and may crowd ...

If a gene is evolutionarily conserved, that shows it must be doing something important. Otherwise, nature would let it go.

Chinese Academy of Sciences researchers report that fossilized entomopathogenic fungi from mid-Cretaceous amber reveal some of the oldest direct evidence of parasitic relationships between fungi ...

Trillions of bacteria, fungi, viruses and single-celled organisms travel the globe high in the atmosphere. Scientists are finding that they play a role in the weather and our health.

As conservation targets, fungi aren’t as appealing as giant pandas. But these scientists explain that the health of Earth’s fungal species is critically important.

New isolation kit for the rapid genomic DNA isolation of yeast cells and fungal spores.